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MusicfestNW has always had one of the more diverse festival lineups around. A large part of that is because -- rather than jamming thousands upon thousands of people asses to elbows in a huge field on some farm somewhere -- MusicfestNW puts the action into venues scattered around Portland, setting the population loose. It is...

It has been a decade since Godspeed You! Black Emperor released Yanqui U.X.O., and since then the musical landscape has changed quite a bit. As a new generation of music lovers have grown up with the concept that music is free, and the people making it are entertainers in a vaudeville-like act, bands have been...Read...

Well holy crap. A band that has been long dormant is rising from the ashes to reclaim its throne as the post-rock kings of the world. After a few European dates, the Canadian post-rock heavyweights are hitting up North America for a tour. GY!BE – I cannot wait. 02-16 Vancouver, British Columbia – Vogue Theatre...Read...